Via The Mercury (Hobart) – 6 August 1889, a story of a large mangold (root vegetable) which had apparently taken the form of a human hand. The mangold photo here is from an English website dedicated to the fine sport of mangold hurling. Keep your tongue firmly in your cheek as you read!

The Nant Estate (where the disfigured mangold was discovered) is now home to the Nant Distillery, home of the only commercially operating water-powered flour mill in Australia. This now heritage site, an hour north of Hobart, produces single malt whisky.